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...best of its cartoons (by Ogg Fitz-Gerald of the Wall Street Journal) showed a wide-eyed, wavy-eared white rabbit with a magician's wand in its paw (see cut), pulling Franklin Roosevelt from a silk hat, over the caption: "THAT'S NEWS!" Some of its fantastic side lights on Recession...
...TIME, May 8, under People you noted that General Motors' president had presented Princess Ingrid of Denmark with a pair of synthetic silk stockings. Since the Japanese sacked Nanking in 1937, I have worn no silk at all-and the substituted lisle & rayon hosiery are hateful to me. Those synthetic silk stockings sound like the answer to a maiden's prayer. Are they on the market as yet? If so, where, please? If not-who is making them? Surely not General Motors? Whoever is making them can probably use another experimenter to test their wearability...
...Pont's synthetic silk, said to have the elasticity that rayon lacks, is a synthesis of coal, air and water called Nylon, or Fibre 66. Nylon is not yet on the market, but Du Pont has given three girls at the New York World's Fair a pair of Nylon stockings apiece which they have been wearing steadily for the past three weeks. Celanese Corp. of America is also working on a synthetic silk fibre, as yet unnamed...
...week the Ford chemurgic laboratory at Dearborn displayed pride in a promising new fabric from soybean meal -said to be the first textile made from a vegetable protein.* Mr. Ford was presented with a tasteful necktie one-third of which was woven from the soybean fabric, the rest of silk and wool. Protein is extracted from soybean meal in saline solution, then mixed with other chemicals to make a viscous liquid, which is squirted into hair-sized filaments. The spun thread has a pleasant feel, fairly good tensile strength, takes dyes readily. Its intended use: automobile upholstery...
Modish, elfin-faced Eve Curie sued E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. for $50,000 damages. Her plaint: Not only had a Du Pont ad used an unauthorized photograph of her well-turned legs, but the ad conveyed the false impression that she wore Nylon (a Du Pont silk substitute...